The Night Owl

A lot of discussion went on tonight, but not to any real outcome change...

Danielle whined and cried a lot all day and pushed Dan to tell her what to do to work on Ian more.  He told her a few things she could pressure him about and off she went.  She went and talked to Ian.  She told him again that she was going to tank the jury against him etc.. etc.. more of the same BS.  She seemed to think she was giong to help her case this way.  Really all she did was turn Ian more on her.  He gave her no info and mostly just nodded and refused to look her in the eye and then muttered a lot to himself about her in the hammock once she left him alone.

Danielle then cornered Dan in the bedroom which was an interesting conversation to watch.  I am not sure if he was just trying to separate himself from liking her because he knows he might be intentionally sending her out, or if he was just annoyed with her or just pushing her buttons, but the conversation was kind of mean spirited with a hint of Jest..just enough to make Danielle think he was joking.  Danielle did a lot of whining, begging him to be nice to her, shit talking about past female house guests that she is jealous of, begging more for him to be sweet to her, fishing for compliments, lying about what she said to Ian etc..  Dan instead of playing to her whims like he usually does insulted her right back.  When she would say "What if I made this move?" he would say "you couldn't make that move. You are not me.".  When she would pull out the fake cancer card he would ask her to stop it.  When she would pull out the whole "You are my family now Dan no matter how you feel about me" He told her to "stop fishing for compliments" She told him that she jumped up and down in her living room when she watched him win his season (which she never watched). He told her to stop lying and said he could tell when she was lying.  This conversation went on for quite a while, and each time he would cut her down, he would eventually tell her hew as just joking with her.

Eventually he left the bedroom and went to talk to Ian.  Ian talked a lot about how it annoys him that she keeps threatening him.  He talked about how he didn't act like a buzzkill when he was on the block and thought he was going home.  He told Dan again and again that he was def taking him to the final 2 and that there was no chance he would ever ever take Danielle and that she wasn't going to get inside his head.

As of now they are just talking about Survivor and bitter vs non bitter jury votes while Danielle sits alone in bed pouting.  It's going to be a long 2 days before we figure out what is actually going to happen.

Who Will It Be? ..The Night Owl

Interesting goings on in the BB house tonight.  When we started off recording our last Big Brother Gossip show of the season, the second part of the final HOH was underway.  When we finished recording, almost immediately, the feeds came back.  The 2 players literally look like they have been dropped down a chimney. They are covered in black soot.  There was no morphomatic this year..this was somwthing different where they had to climb a ladder and put house guests plates in some kind of order from what I understand.  Ian won!!

Now, remember yesterday when Dan told Danielle that if Ian won the second round they would have to make a big scene to throw things back in their favor?  Well all that happened exactly as planned.  Dan intentionally celebrated Ian's win too loudly so that Danielle could hear it.  Danielle started screaming at Ian just like she was supposed to. She told him if he won and took Dan that she would taint the entire Jury against him and neither she, Shane, or Ashely would ever vote for him in a million years.  She says she will tell Ashley every mean thing he ever said about her (I don't think Ian was ever that mean about Ashley...she would have been better off saying Jenn about that one). Anyway, she goes on to tell Ian that Dan is the devil and call Ian a liar.  She says he was lying to her when he said he would take her to the final 2. (Ian never actually said he would take Danielle to the final 2..he just listened when she promised to take HIM.).. anyway...this goes on or a while which was part one of their plan.

Scene 2, act 1.. Dan goes to Ian and tells him that Danielle is being such a baby. Tells himt hat he really wants to cut her himself and that he wants that final HOH so that he can cut her.  He goes on about this for a while to Ian.  This was supposed to be the part in the plan where Ian told Dan he trusts him and would throw him the final HOH and let him cut Danielle so that Dan could actually cut Ian....however, lucky for us, Ian is not that stupid. 

Ian tells Dan that he doesn't care about Danielle's jury vote or if she tries to tank the jury.  He says he won't throw the final HOH and that he would be okay with second place if that's what it came down to, but that while Danielle was a nice girl, he isn't taking her to F2, and he isn't going to throw the final HOH to Dan just so that Dan can be the one to cut her.

During the discusssion between Dan and Ian, Danielle is in the DR.  Now Ian gets called to the DR and Danielle comes out.  She heads for the s hower and is sobbing as usual.  Dan gives her a hug and she sobs some more and mutters something that no one can hear.  Dan tells her if she needs anything to let him know.  BB tells her to please put on her microphone, and as Danielle almost always does, she screams back at them that "she isn't going to put on her mic right now..she wants to take a shower."..

Well at this point I was starting to think that Ian's only hope was to win the final HOH, because clearly even though he isnt' going to throw it, if Dan gets it, he is taking Danielle.   Then Dan decides to have a chat with the cameras while Danielle showers and sobs and Ian is in the DR.

Dan tells the camera "My best move now is to throw the HOH to Ian and let him take me to the end because if I win, my conscience won't let me cut Danielle.  What should I do?  Throwing the final HOH is insane, but it's just so insane that it just might work."  Dan stares at the memory wall for a while and talks  some more about his best bet being to throw it to Ian. 

Danielle gets out of the shower and goes to her bed with the lights on and cries ...for hours..literally.  While Danielle is off crying, Ian and Dan celebrate quietly in various places in the house.  They talk about Danielle's attitude, Jury votes, What they would do with the money etc..  They continuously check to see if Danielle has turned the light off yet so they can go to bed without things seeming uncomfortable.   Eventually Danielle finally turns the light out and Dan decides to go to bed.  Ian stays up pacing and tells Dan that he wants to stay awake because he really wants the hammock....which he did finally get.  He is squeaky squwawking away on  it right now.

Now the finale and the final HOH is a ways away, and anything could happen between now and then, but for now I am kind of hopeful that Danielle might actually not make it to the final 2.  I am hoping Dan does throw the HOH to Ian and let him take him to the final 2.  As far as game play goes, I feel like the 2 of them are much more deserving than Danielle to win.  We shall see how things play out as Danielle continues to victimize herself all over the house and plead for sympathy.  I think her doing that could be the ONE thing that might get Dan to decide to fight for HOH to take her tot he final 2...but I'm hoping it doesn't work.  We shall see what happens!!  G'night!

Big Brother Gossip Show #28: Season Finale

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know that there are a few days left in this season, but it makes sense that we end our Big Brother Gossip season with tonight's show. The action is pretty much over for the live feeds, outside of a few more incredulous Danielel claims and whines. So tonight we go over the events of the last week, predict what will happen on Wednesday's finale, and also spend some time thanking everybody for making this a great season of broadcasts. We truly appreciate each and every person who listened to our silliness all throughout the year, and we'll be back next year (hopefully) better than ever.

As with every time we do a show DURING a competition, the feeds returned literally seconds after we signed off. Ian won the second HOH comp, and we got to see Danielle yelling at Ian. This was set up by Dan earlier in the day as a great idea in case Ian won, and dumb Danielle was so willing to follow through that Dan was shown giggling in the bedroom. Yes, Danielle, cost yourself a potential F2 if Ian happens to beat Dan in the third HOh competition on Wednesday.

But I digress. Let's get back to our finale episode.

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The Night Owl

 Most of the night literally NOTHING happened.  They sat on couches, played cards, asked each other questions about their fans (Danielle of course), wrapped Ian completely in toilet paper, sat some more, ate...Then Ian went to bed.

After Ian went to bed, Dan and Danielle went upstairs to click whisper over the chess board.  Danielle is still hung up on Shane being gone and about thinking she can't beat Ian in the second HOH tomorrow/today.  She again starts yelling at Dan about how she has done SOO much in this game and done so much for him and how he doesn't care about her or he would have kept Shane.  Dan explains to her AGAIN for the millionth time that while he cares about her outside of the game, inside the game you are playing to get to the end any way you can and you have to leave your emotions at the door to do that. She argues some more and her eyebrows almost literally hit the ceiling. 

She continues to warble on and on about how she has never lied or done anything that would hurt anyone EVER, but that he just enjoys torturing her...blah...blah...blah..  Then, after she says for about the millionth time "You just have no idea how I feel or what you've done to me" Dan gets a little on edge with her and says "That's the difference between you and me. You're still walking around in Shane's sweatpants and caring about something that didn't even matter when I'm thinking about the game and the final 2".  This doesn't shut her up though...she continues to whimper and whine as if that will bring Shane back. He tells her that if she wants the "brass tacks" abouit the situation, he wanted to get rid of Shane in his first HOH so they could be sitting next to Jenn and about to have no problem winning, but she stopped him then and he has been kicking himself for listening to her about it so he had to take a stab at getting Shane out when he could.

They also talk on and on about how Danielle is going to stomp Ian in the second round of the HOH comp.  This is another redundant conversation they have had about 20 times in the last 24 hours. The more they talk on and on about it, the more I want Ian to kill Danielle at the second part of the comp and then win the final HOH so I can see the look on her face when she realizes her fate lies in his hands. 

I want 2 people who actually realize they are playing Big Brother to make it to the end.  It annoys me to think  that somenoe who is walking around mourning her lost showmance and whining about how Dan doesn't care about her feelings and how emotionally hurt she is might actually make it to be the winner. I mean seriously..if you want to be on a show where  people are going  to kiss your ass and showmance you up, go be on The Real World or one of the other 10 million reality shows out there where you are not fighting to win a bunch of money.

The Danielle vs Dan convo is still going on, but it's going in circles, so I feel no need to wait it out.  I will post more if anyting interesting actually comes up.  I leave you with a montage of Danielle's faces as she was bitching at Dan. This is the positive thing Danielle has done for me this season...as far as screencapping goes, she is as golden as Shelly was with those faces.

The Night Owl

Oh my, where to begin...  So I guess everyone saw the show.  Danielle pulled Dan off the block (sucker).  She put Shane up. Dan blindsided Danielle and evicted Shane. Danielle did this:

Then the feeds were cut for a long time.  When they came back everyone was mid endurance comp.  even after Dan told Danielle she was dead to him in the game, put her on the block, sent out her fake showmance in a big blindside, and whatever else he did to her in her sick little mind, he STILL was able to convince her to throw the first part of the final HOH to him. 

So at this point I am more blown away by Danielle than I hever have been by any other house guest.  During the HOH comp while Dan was trying to convince her to throw it, she talked about all the reasons she shouldn't.  She talked about not knowing if she could beat Ian at the 2nd round etc..  and yet...she STILL THREW IT TO HIM!!  This guarantees Dan that he can do whatever he wants now.  Both Danielle and Ian will take him to the final 2, so he no longer has to even try to win the final HOH unless he just really wants to be the one to make the decision.  He basically convinced her to give him a free pass to the final 2 as if he didn't have one already...

So Danielle goes inside, takes a shower and then begins to cry about Shane being gone.  "He was so afraid he would go out like Jeff and then he did" she sobs. 

When she is done crying by herself, she decides to go and have a cry at Dan in the bathroom while Ian is in the DR.  She tells Dan how she can't believe he would do that to her when she told him she is emotionally drained already.  He just doesn't know how she feels. She thinks that keeping Ian was more beneficial to his game than hers. *shocked face* I mean WHO plays big brother to win for themselves?!  I guess Dan was supposed to just keep playing for Danielle to  win and keep Shane so she could sit pretty.  It's not like it would be Danielle's own stupid STUPID mistake of taking Dan off the block and trusting him to keep Shane that put her in this predicament.

Dan tells her that he is taking her to the final 2 and that she must convince Ian that she will take him to the final 2 so that Ian will throw the second HOH to her (yeah right). 

Danielle tells Dan that she still trusts him and she doesn't hate him, but that she thinks that this week would have been much easier if he had just kept Shane.  She thinks that she is screwed if she doesn't win the final HOH.  Oh, and the best part "Mah Daddy will rip me a new one if I only come in third".  So I guess her abusive, alcoholic father who didn't want her to go on Big Brother in the first place will now abuse her if she doesn't win the whole thing.  This pity party for herself goes on for a really long time and there is actualy sobbing and whimpering.

Once they hear Ian come around the corner, Dan dashes off first to the arcade room, and then says that he is going to bed, and he does.   While Dan is in bed, Danielle parrots all the lies Dan told her to tell to Ian.  She tells him that all the people in the house told her what their answers were going to be to the final HOH  comp (they are always either strategic or personal answers).  She tells him that he needs to thrwo the second part of the HOH to her so that she can annihilate  Dan in the final round with all the answers she already knows, and then cut Dan and take Ian to the final 2. 

Ian listens and agrees that what Dan did was ugly.  He says he wasn't planning on hurting Shane or anything, but he never tells Danielle about his final 2 deal with Dan and he never says he will take her to the final 2.  He also never agrees to throw the HOH to her even though she keeps pushing the issue.

After they end their chat, Ian goes to the bathroom and Danielle runs off to the bedroom to tell Dan what a good little job she did of fooling Ian.  She tells him everything Ian supposedly said about him...and we all know how Danielle retells go, so lets just say it was less than accurate. 

Then they all went to bed.

What I think:

From the beginning of the season I've always just kind of looked at Danielle as a ridiculous, batshit crazy source of entertainment.  She has always gotten on my nerves, and I have never enjoyed her as a player.  I started out LOVING Ian and wanting him to win the whole thing but then fell out of love with him as he did things like refuse to get rid of Dan and evict people like Ashley.  I also started out determined to hate the idea of a vet making it to the end instead of a newbie final 2.  After this whole season has gone by, and with all of my ups and downs with each player, I honestly have to say that I think I would enjoy an Ian and Dan final 2 the most.  As far as game play goes, I think the 2 of them earned it more.  I hate admitting it because I so didn't want a vet in the end, but Dan has played really hard, and this is not The Real World, or The Bachleorette, or Lets Make Friends...it's Big Brother and it's a game for $500K.  I think he has made some decent moves and been helped along by the fact that the rest of the house are mostly idiots. 

I think Ian is very young and tends to get entirely too full of himself.  When he wins things, his bravado is almost unbearable, but when it comes down to it, he has won competitions, has played fairly well socially managing not to make many enemies until they were walking out the door, and he LOVES Big Brother.  He has made some really stupid game moves under the influence of Dan, like the rest of the house guests, BUT, he did choose to break away from his own team and be in an alliance he believed in (as much as I hate the QP) and he has made a few moves..little as they are, on his own.  I wouldn't call anyone's showing this year "great", but he has done okay.

I don't want to see Danielle anywhere near any winnings.  Entertaining as she was to watch melt down and freak out and lie and be insane, I don't thinks he has done ANYTHING on her own.  I don't think she has made a single move or had a single conversation outside of what Dan wanted her to do, or what she thought might get Shane to desire her.  She keeps trusting Dan over and over and over again..and that's pretty much the definition of insanity folks...doing the same stupid thing over and over and expecting different results. She has won a few competitions, but only with permission from Dan to win them first. And let's just face it, half the time she is really hard to look at with all those scabs oozing all over her face where she keeps digging holes where zits used to be.

So that is where this sad sad season has left me.  I think I actually want Ian to wint he final HOH and take Dan with him.  I would also greatly enjoy Danielle's eviction face I think.  It's almost over guys. What do you all think?